A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

Stephen Stanko, the 57-year-old South Carolina man who killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, raped her teen daughter, and then ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...

Lawyers for the state vigorously denied the claims. They point out that the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected a similar last-ditch appeal on May 28. They said every execution is different and ...

Two South Carolina representatives have called for an independent investigation into the execution of death row inmate Mikal Mahdi. Mahdi's attorneys dispute the autopsy report, claiming the ...

That South Carolina’s method of choice wasn’t as humane as advertised is less surprising when you consider that different courts can’t even agree on what constitutes a humane execution. The ...